- 01.29.10
- Filed Under: Blogging, Business
- 18 Comments
So, yesterday was a big day for us. We rolled out our new submissions tool, something that has been in the works for a while now. In a very small nutshell, this tool allows brides and vendors to submit real weddings and such using a streamlined tool, giving us a super efficient way to review them and get back to people in a super quick way. Here is a little peak into the awesome new tool that Adam and Tait built.
First, you decide how you want to submit…
Then, you upload your photos…
Add your description and your vendor credits…
Then voila…off it goes to me, Elaine and Eddye to review for the blog. From our admin panel, we can accept or decline submissions, assign them to the appropriate editor and import the images into our galleries (upon publishing). Plus, we get little email alerts every time one of you sends us a new submission so we know that it’s waiting for us to review. It’s AWESOME and will save me hours upon hours of opening, reading, waiting for attachements to scan and load, unzipping folders and reviewing submissions.
Now if only everything could be this simple!
To access the new tool and submit content click right here. You can also use the email address submit@submissions.com which creates a submission using our new tool automatically.
Well done!! That should save you a ton of time and make it easier for folks to submit!
It looks nice and slick, too.
Well, now that is just impressive. Will it also send an email back to the submitter to let them know you approved or declined? I know sitting in wait is the hardest part!
We are working on that part…I don’t want the canned response to sound rude in any way and I want to figure out a way to give constructive feedback. We are going to try to have 3-5 templates of responses so submitters can understand why it didn’t get accepted. Hopefully soon!
If you send an email to the tool. It will reply to you with an email that gives you access to your photo submissions. Using this email you can always check on the status of the submission.
Currently, when we accept or reject a submission the responsibility is on us to send the submitter an email. We built it this way on purpose b/c it was simpler and more personal. However, I foresee semi-canned responses in our future.
Great tool! That’s awesome that it will save you some time.
And I find it very odd that I had to go back and make my comment longer. WordPress said it was too short…
Really? That IS reallly weird. I’ll ask Tait.
congrats on the new tool! It looks amazing!
Lovely! Can it help get your man to propose, too? haha just kidding (god forbid said man should google this)
Looks great! Can’t wait to try it out.
omg that us so awesome! im cleary a total geek but as someone who also gets sent alot of submissions this new tool makes me very jealous! i want, I want!
This is great and is just the thing I’ve been dreaming of.
Thanks for sharing!
so exciting! I can’t wait to try it out … love …
very nice…looks super user-friendly. can’t wait to show you that wedding I have may 1st (backyard/park/tent)…you are going to be head over heels for it!!!
How awesome! Looks like a great user-friendly tool! Good job you two!
Great idea! I’m going to try it
Hi! I love SMP (naturally) and just discovered Backstage, and of course love it too. Thanks for all the amazing inspirations!
Question about submissions: do you take weddings held outside the US with non-US vendors?
Thanks!
We do. If it’s stylish, inspirational and original we’ll take it.